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Open Family
Alessandra Rombolą • flute | Tiziana Bertoncini • violin
Ingar Zach • percussion, electronics | Thomas Lehn • analogue synthesizer
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Alessandra Rombolą • flute | Tiziana Bertoncini • violin
Ingar Zach • percussion, electronics | Thomas Lehn • analogue synthesizer
about | biographies
top left © Laki Sideris, right © Nazzareno Suriano
bottom © Cristina Marx/photomusix
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What happens when people from different countries and cultures get together and form a family? A friction between familiar and stranger, a relativisation of the principles, the identities, the reference points; an opening to the different.
Families (like all groups) are often a symbol for closeness, protection, nest and comfort. A warm comfort, which can rotten, because it lacks of fresh air and doesn't nourish itself with the "stranger".
Therefore, in this project we want to support the idea of an open family: a place where each member feels a home, can interact with each other on the basis of love, respect and mutual acceptance.
The four musicians are not only two mixed couples in life, but they also play and master four musical instruments from four different families, covering the whole spectrum: flute, violin, percussion and analogue synthesizer. This makes the sound palette extremely rich and colorful.
They are all deeply rooted in contemporary written and improvised music and in the profound listening of the sound.
We could say that contemporary free improvisation is itself the best example of open family. Therefore this particular improvisation project wants to celebrate the openness and the listening, the invisible thread, which is at the basis of all musical and human encounters/relationships.
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homepages / biographies
Alessandra Rombolą www.alessandrarombola.com
Tiziana Bertoncini
Ingar Zach www.ingarzach.com
Thomas Lehn www.thomaslehn.com
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updated on November 13, 2023